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This painting was done in February on a Sunday night just as the sunset. I was looking South about a half mile West of the Lone Grave turn off just Northwest of Kenesaw, Nebraska, hence the paintings title “West of the Lone Grave Turnoff February Dusk”. Growing up I passed this intersection most Sunday evenings it’s an interesting mix of fields and what I consider to be the most southern foothills of the Sandhills. It’s interesting because this area is South of the Platte River and the Sandhills lie to the North and further West.
Lone Grave is a local landmark and the resting spot of a pioneer woman lost to cholera on her way west along the Oregon Trail. It became well known because her grave was marked with a marble headstone. Legend has it her husband traveled back to Omaha and purchased the marble grave marker and returned on foot pushing it in a wheel barrow. The Adams County Historical Society has an entire account of the grave of Susan Haile.
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